The insects have well and truly taken over the bathroom in Brian Moses and Sonia Holleyman’s lively, satisfying picture book. You won’t believe the things you’ll hear - an earwig using Dad’s aftershave, a caterpillar shampooing his hair, a beetle singing in the shower – no wonder our narrator (who is waiting to use the loo) is so cross! The scenes of beetle mania are splendidly conjured up in Brian Moses’s accomplished rhyming text, which piles image upon image before bringing readers up short in its final lines. Sonia Holleyman has a great time with the illustrations too, giving us wonderful close ups of the sploshing, splashing, waving, misbehaving insects. Great fun! ~Andrea Reece
There’s an earwig shaving, a woodlouse waving, lots of ants skating.
Meanwhile I’m waiting …
There’s more than a beetle using the bathroom as you’ll soon discover in this fresh and funny rhyming story by poet Brian Moses. Lots of friendly, fantastic characters are brought to life with Sonia Holleyman’s wild and wacky illustrations. So next time you see a spider in the bath, you’ll know exactly what it’s been doing!
‘… great rhyming pages. Big bright illustrations give the characters a whole topic in each of themselves’ silkysteps
‘Great for classroom and home reading’ Goodreads
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About Brian Moses
Brian Moses had dreams, growing up, of becoming a musician. But it was Bob Dylan’s lyrics that fired his teenage imagination. Then he encountered the ‘Mersey Sound’ poets and he was hooked. Starting out as a teacher, he wrote poems for his pupils and their response encouraged him to become a full-blown, published poet.
Now, more than 200 books later – either as author or anthologist – he has sold over one million copies and has been labelled ‘one of Britain’s favourite children’s poets’ by the National Poetry Archive. Music, with its rhythm and repetition, informs much of his work and he performs poetry and percussion shows across the UK and abroad. Brian lives in a small Sussex village with his wife, Anne, and their black Labrador, Jess. He says that his best ideas come to him when he is ‘out walking the dog’.
